The Professor Challenge – Day 36: Building Confidence on QQPK
💰 Bankroll Progress
Starting Bankroll: $171.22
Ending Bankroll: $190.60
Session Result: +$19.38
📖 Table of Contents
✅ A Strong Second Session on QQPK
Day 36 delivered exactly the kind of session I wanted after the room change. The bankroll moved from $171.22 to $190.60, producing a +$19.38 result and giving the new QQPK phase some early momentum.
The profit matters, but the more important point is that the games already feel much more comfortable than the final stretch on Titi Poker. I am back in a structure where there is room to make decisions rather than constantly compressing the session into shallow-stack all-ins.
This follows directly from Day 35, when I moved the challenge to QQPK Poker, dropped to NL2 and returned to 150BB stacks.
🐟 The Pool Is Already Showing Its Weaknesses
The first thing that stood out again today was how loose some of the players are. I saw opponents willing to shove more than 100BB preflop with hands as weak as J7 offsuit.
Postflop, the same pattern appeared. Several players were happy to commit an entire stack with top pair and virtually no kicker. Over a meaningful sample, those are exactly the situations I want to keep encountering.
It is too early to make a definitive claim about the whole player pool, but the first two sessions strongly suggest that QQPK offers the kind of mistakes that should be exploitable with deeper stacks.
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🧠 Back to 150BB: Rusty but Comfortable
The main adjustment now is not the opponents. It is me. After spending so much time playing around 40BB on Titi Poker, I need to rebuild some deep-stack instincts.
At 150BB, river ranges matter more, bet sizes carry more information and one loose call can cost far more than it would in a shallow pot. The decision tree is simply wider.
That is a challenge I am happy to accept. I would take 150BB poker over the short-stack format one hundred times out of one hundred because it gives me more opportunities to create an edge across multiple streets.
⚠️ A River Call I Didn't Love
The clearest example of that rust came in a hand where I faced a river check-raise. Even before calling, I suspected that I was beaten.
I still made the call. That is exactly the type of decision I need to clean up as I return to deeper poker. Recognizing that a line is underbluffed is useless if I still pay it off.
The positive result should not hide those mistakes. A good session can still contain bad calls, just as a losing session can contain excellent decisions. The review has to stay process-driven.
🔄 Why This Structure Feels Better Than Titi
The contrast with Day 34 is already obvious. That session ended with the decision to abandon the short-stack experiment because the bankroll and the game structure had become too fragile.
QQPK at NL2 solves both problems at once: the financial pressure per pot is much lower, while the 150BB stack gives more room for position, bet sizing, bluff-catching and postflop exploitation.
Variance obviously still exists. But now the challenge is being played in a format where the bankroll can absorb more of it and decision quality can matter over more streets.
📺 Watch the Full Session
Watch the complete Day 36 session below.
🎓 Technical Comment by Marchese del River
The most encouraging part of Day 36 is not the +$19.38. It is the evidence that the new environment is giving The Professor more exploitable decisions. When opponents are willing to put 100BB or more in preflop with very weak holdings, the long-term edge can become substantial.
The warning is that deep stacks punish curiosity. The river check-raise call is a good example. When a line is heavily weighted toward value, the extra stack depth makes disciplined folds even more important.
That is why the transition back to 150BB should be treated almost like a technical reset. Review river spots, rebuild thresholds for stack-off decisions and avoid assuming that habits developed at 40BB transfer directly to deep play.
Overall, the room change looks promising. The population appears loose, the bankroll has more breathing room and the format once again rewards postflop skill. The next objective is simply to turn those conditions into consistent execution.
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💭 Final Thoughts
Day 36 closes with the bankroll at $190.60, up $19.38 from the start of the session.
The result is welcome, but the bigger story is that QQPK already feels like a much better fit for the rebuild. The pool is showing obvious weaknesses and the 150BB structure gives me the space to attack them properly.
There is still work to do. The river call showed that deep-stack decision-making needs some polishing, and two good QQPK sessions are nowhere near enough to draw conclusions.
For now, though, the direction is encouraging. Rebuild the bankroll, sharpen the deep-stack game and keep moving up one decision at a time.
The Bankroll Challenge continues.
